Believe not every spirit : possession, mysticism, & discernment in early modern Catholicism /
From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism?popular with women?emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in...
| Основен автор: | Sluhovsky, Moshe, 1958- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=260269 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Believe not every spirit. |
| Резюме: |
From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism?popular with women?emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? Drawing on unexplored a. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 374 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-359) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226762951 0226762955 1281966525 9781281966520 |